According to Alexa, MySpace is currently the 6th most popular site in the world – the five before it are Yahoo!, Google, MSN, Baidu.com and Yahoo! Japan. That’s pretty distinguished company to be keeping.

Google is a little unhappy that IE 7 Beta 2’s search function defaults to MSN. Personally, I don’t know what the fuss is about. I’ve pretty much well tried to ignore the hooha over the last week; but it’s getting on my nerves a little, so for what it’s worth here’s my view. More noise to add to the fray :) (more…)

Ah, Hallmark Holidays, bless them all, especially if you’re a retailer :). I’m not a great fan of the thinly veiled commercial exploitation of such events, which is rather odd given my chosen career, but business is business I guess.

I love living in Australia, but we always seem to be on the tail end of getting access to new services released in the USA.

I’m pleased to say that MSN AdCenter, MS’s PPC (Pay Per Click) service, previously a pilot program and available only to USA merchants, is now accessible to Aussies – and I assume to merchants in most other countries as well.

If you’re considering selling, or buying for that matter, articles, video, audio or images; this may be of interest to you. Unveiled at AdTech, this new service looks quite interesting and has attracted some large players already. (more…)